 I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.  Self Culture - Page 6231895Full view - About this book
 | William Boyd Carpenter - 1876 - 322 pages
...Ambroise," p. 13. 7* VI. ST. AUGUSTINE. ' ' / held in truth with him who sings To one clear harp of diverse tones That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to nobler things." VI. day, fourteen hundred years ago, two persons sat at an open window, and looked... | |
 | Jane E. Stebbins - 1876 - 526 pages
...difficult it is to overcome the fearful habit of intemperance, it is not yet quite impossible " Thnt men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." Considering, however, the extreme risk that men run in the matter, it were safer and wiser not to bring... | |
 | Augustus J. Thébaud - 1876 - 560 pages
...by sorrow, profits much." Thus, in ^Eschylus, we find the recognition of a moral discipline by which men " May rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.'' This last reflection we find in Mr. Plumptre's " Life of JEschylus," from whom also we took the last... | |
 | 1877 - 362 pages
...cannot die. YOUNG, Night Thoughts. — I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp, in divers tones, That MEN may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. TENNYSON, In Memoriam. — Oh, shame to MEN ! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only... | |
 | Language - 1877 - 316 pages
...scandals' tints, With all the high mendacity of hints. — Byron, Monkshood (Helmet Flower) { ( errantry. Men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. — Tennyson. Moonwort ............... Forgttfulncss. Morning Glory ............... Affectation. And... | |
 | Emma Jane Worboise - 1878 - 630 pages
...CHAPTER XXXIII. ME. FREEMAN'S JOUENEY. " I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp, in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." EARLY on Monday morning, Roger Brndenell received » telegram from Mr. Francis Freeman : — " Expect... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 688 pages
...And in thy wisdom make me wise. 18,9. I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. But who shall so forecast the years And find in loss a gain to match ? Or reach a hand thro' time to... | |
 | Margaret Gatty - 1878 - 290 pages
...went on ; he reading as before : — ' I hold it truth with him who sings To one cl«ar harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.' ' ' When, what was my surprise to see my friend fling the book down, lay his arm on the table, and... | |
 | 1878 - 638 pages
...following stanza from In Memoriam : " I hold, in truth, with him who sinfis, To one clear harp of divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." Millersville, Pa. JWW No. 60 gives all the light we have been able to obtain upon this point. 115.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1878 - 896 pages
...clear harp in divers tones, 1 Saint Augustine ! well hnst thou said, That of our vices we can frame That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. In Alemoriam. i. Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break. Ibid. vi. And topples round... | |
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